Senior Software Engineer_Java_Kafka

About Lowe's

Lowe’s is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

About Lowe's India 

Lowe’s India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe’s Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe’s India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability. For more information, visit Lowes India

Job Summary:

The primary purpose of this role is to translate business requirements and functional specifications into logical program designs and to deliver code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions. This includes developing, configuring, or modifying complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments. This role facilitates the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

• Translates complex business requirements and functional specifications into executable stories, designs, and code modules; partners with product teams to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Independently writes high quality, maintainable, and robust code by building adequate test suits and observability framework.
• Guides application and software development teams in the design and build of complex solutions and ensures teams are in alignment with the architecture blueprint, standards, and strategies.
• Participates and mentors other engineers in software development technologies and processes by creating onboarding documents, root cause analysis, key learnings, demos, and share-out sessions.
• Automates and simplifies team development, tests, and operations processes for efficiency of delivering the work.
• Evaluates modern software, tools, and technologies to provide objective analysis and recommendations to the team.
 

Years of Experience:

5-8 years

Education Qualification & Certifications

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have)

• Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security

• Strong knowledge in Microservices architecture, building and running APIs on a Kubernetes platform (cloud/on-prem PaaS)

• Experience with Web Services (JSON, REST, JAX-RS, Spring based REST services)

• Strong with Java and J2EE/Java EE (including servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC)

• Strong understanding of Java Multithreading

• Experience working with DB like Mongo, Casandra etc.

• Experience with at least one of the development tools like Git, Gradle, Maven, Sonar, Jenkins, Artifactory etc

• Experience with web application servers like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss  etc

• Experience with TDD, code testability standards, JUnit/Mockito

• Experience with DevOps practices and CICD model of development

• Good understanding of OOP, design patterns and industry best practices

• Agile project experience along with working on Agile tools like JIRA

•  Strong written and verbal communication skills

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.